Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Introduction

Liverpool uses an ARGUS server, hepgrid9.ph.liv.ac.uk, for user authentication from the CEs and WNs. A requirement came down from above to implement central banning and this is how we went about it. Most of this came from Ewan's TB_SUPPORT email (title: NGI Argus requests for NGI_UK) and from this description here:

The first few lines just load our standard site policies. The last bit flushes some buffers. The middle bit is the part you need.

Basically, it adds polices from the NGI ARGUS server. We've also reduced the polling interval. When you run the script, you'll connect the local ARGUS server to the NGI one and periodically download the remote (central) banning policies.